This design launched the Saying it with Blackwork series of designs. I have played around with so many varieties of alphabets and blackwork, so I based a whole series off of it. I mean, who doesn't need to customize a project for someone, so therefore...
The Garden Traditions series continues, this time inspired by yet another Virginia garden plantation. This time, the garden layout was inspired by everything growing in the kitchen garden, giving me lots of narrow "plots" to work with. The architecture around the gardens inspired the border,...
Well, this is another design in the A Blackwork Christmas series, and it's another beauty! Actually, I'm going to tell on myself a little bit. This design was introduced at the same time as the Christmas Crazy Wreath design. When designs are introduced, my husband and...
The design of this series entirely came during a period of playing around with various kinds of needlework motifs, and seeing what I got when I mixed them. The knotwork in these designs, becomes the framework that the blackwork fills go in to. And beautifully,...
Coloring book pages based off of needlework designs, blackwork fill samplers, kaleidoscope images, knotwork, and all kinds of other things. So, what am I going to do with all those blackwork fills? Some wouldn't work in a stitched design, some are a larger...
Every once and a while, I am reminded that surface decoration has been around for years. Today was just once such time. My hubbie and myself visited an exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Sunken Cities. Oh my goodness,...
Well, as I get into the task of bringing Stitchin'spiration to life, I wanted to look through all the various designs before I listed them for sale. I needed to get some things updated on the charts, and also I wanted to get them ready...
When I introduced this design in 2006, I started getting my "feet wet" on things Christmas. This hit all the high spots, a beautiful sampler in the form of a beautiful wreath, but also allowed the stitcher to pull out all their existing threads and...